Population and Public Health

Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief medical officer at telehealth and remote patient monitoring firm Cadence  and former virtual care and digital health chief at Providence, sees a way to create a more sustainable and patient-centered healthcare system.

Also, a private Cambodian hospital partnered with a commercial bank to enable mobile, automated payments.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the DOGE-assisted cuts, which represent nearly 25% of the department's employees and impact FDA, CDC, NIH and other agencies, would save $1.8 billion per year.

Josh Wymer, a HIMSS25 Changemaker, discusses his work with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, including a statewide data project that brought together data from multiple locations and organizations.

The dashboard will aggregate primary care data nationwide.

Femtech is helping reduce medical gaslighting by generating data that translates women's experiences into measurable health insights, says Ida Tin, founder of think tank Femtech Assembly.

Susan Monarez, current acting director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has previous experience in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and worked at ARPA-H on AI applications for pop health and quality improvement. 

An award for teaching CAHIMS and CPHIMS certification (Healthcare Information and Management Systems) to low-income urban students at community colleges was given to Monae Haskins, senior application analyst at Atlantic Health System in New Jersey.

It aims to consolidate access to digital health records across regions.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks to develop new ways to provide healthcare for vets and their families, says HIMSS25 Changemaker Awardee Dylan Tête, director of business development for Red Duke Strategies, which works with the VA.